MS Project Best Practices 101 Course

For Microsoft Project training to be effective it needs to be integrated, applied, and enjoyable. By guiding participants through the construction and use of both sample and actual projects (from your workplace), we have found our training to be both productive, and well received. Other courses may show you how to find the product features – our course teaches you how use the features to produce meaningful results.

MS Project Best Practices 101 Course Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

*Enter tasks and create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to capture the scope of your project

*Work with project calendars

*Link tasks together to create a network diagram that dynamically updates

*Utilize the Timeline view to summarize your schedule

*Use notes and hyperlinks to annotate your data

*Save a baseline and enter project progress info

*Utilize constraints and deadlines *Format your data and print useful reports that highlight the important information *Avoid the frustration of many novice users

MS Project Best Practices 101 Course Details

* Length: 8 hours.

*Style: This interactive course uses “Step by Step Microsoft Project” by Carl Chatfield, PMP, accompanied by Key Consulting PowerPoint presentations. Participants build projects using sample data, and then develop, and experiment with, their own project data.

*Texts: Participants receive a course participant’s manual, course textbook, and sample files.

*Format: Computer classroom. We will supply you with a laptop loaded with Microsoft Project.

*Prerequisites: None, however we recommend you take Introduction to Project Management, or equivalent, to maximize the value of this course.

Microsoft Project Best Practices 101 Course Content

*Project management refresher *Moving around and viewing data

*Creating a project

*Project calendars

*Scheduling modes

*Creating tasks

*Entering durations

*Modeling your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

*Creating your Network Diagram

*Adding notes and hyperlinks

*Formatting and printing

*The Timeline view

*Saving a baseline

*Entering basic progress information

*Fine tuning task relationships

*Constraints and deadlines

*Sorting, grouping and filtering

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